MEG-informed navigated TMS for individualized speech cortical mapping

• A bioRxiv Neuroscience preprint describes MEG-informed navigated TMS for individualized speech cortical mapping.¹
• Speech cortical mapping with navigated repetitive TMS (SCM nrTMS) gives neurosurgeons noninvasive prior information on an individual’s cortical speech network.¹
• Individualized mapping is needed because speech-production locations and activation patterns vary widely across people.¹
• The authors hypothesized that MEG data of a person’s own speech production could guide SCM TMS in both time and space.¹
• The approach uses individual MEG speech-production maps to steer navigated rTMS speech cortical mapping.¹
• The method aims to improve noninvasive localization of speech networks for neurosurgery and speech-BCI targeting.^{1 1}

Footnotes

1. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.10.737657v1?rss=1 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷